Friday, January 30, 2009

My Weird Kids

I am sure most parents think their kids have weird tendencies. My kids are no exception. First there is LaLa who is a sweet sensitive child. I can honestly say she has never hit another child. OK well she has hit KiKi, once, but only cause I told her to sock her back. Then there is KiKi, a kid that is so full of life and curiosity that you can just see it popping out of her. They are wonderful kids. Good Lord, they are so weird though.

1. If you give KiKi the choice between chocolate pudding or a pickle, she'll take the pickle nine times out of ten.

3. KiKi won't let me help her do anything. She gets dressed on her own. She gets into her carseat on her own (I strap her in). She puts on her own shoes. She puts on her own jacket. LaLa wants me to help her do everything.

4. LaLa tells me random things that have nothing to do with our conversation mid-sentence. "and so and so was doing...did you know penguins live in Antartica?"

5. According to KiKi anything brown on the floor is poop.

6. Well you all know about LaLa's fashion sense.

Oh by the way..that is a stripped sweater, an Easter dress, and black school socks...and this is a mild fashion choice. I might even let her go out in public with this get up on...if she put a pair of jeans on under the dress, just so her legs don't get cold. I am not one to edit her clothing creativity.

7. These kids can sleep in any position. LaLa usually doesn't sleep with her head on pillows either. Sideways on the bed is always better apparently. Oh and kicking the sheets completely off my bed, yeah always. So in order for me to get in bed I have to remove her, and totally remake my bed. Joy.--------------------------

Proof That LaLa is Turning into a Brit:

1. "One of the other children got into trouble for damaging a chair."2. "KiKi will not help me tidy my room."3. "It was brilliant!"

I was mortified when I went back and looked through old pictures! Easter dress with cowboy boots?!? Really, MOM?! To which Mom replies that she TRIED to dress me all pretty and I would pitch a fit and it just wasn't worth fighting about anymore, so she just let me dress myself.

So now we have 10 years of pictures with spandex, cowboy boots and a shit ton of Mickey Mouse apparel. Usually all on at the same time.

That is awesome. You have to record your children now and again in a year to see how much of the British accent they picked up. We used to spend the whole day talking with an accent, just for fun. We were terrible at it though.

Ha! That picture of her outfit is awesome. She probably has a future as a designer. Feed that! I swear that my 2 year old is an alien child. She even tells us that she is. I think it's awesome to have weird kids! It means that we're doing our job raising happy, creative little ones.

I adore the britisms in LaLa's speech habits, I watch a good deal of UK television shows and am a fan of British fiction, audio books especially, and am finding inserting mostly mild swears like Bloody and Bugger into my own speech, at least it makes her sound more intelligent, the vast majority of american regional speech habits and accents don't sound nearly so smart.

There's a guy that walks around SLC who has that exact shirt that your daughter's wearing, I swear. He wears a pink wig, and everything else he wears is pink. He's homeless, very nice, and extremely smart. It's strange. But, he would never, I repeat never, wear black socks.

Love the name "Mrikyskalamana" and I had to pay attention to write it in my comments.One of my daughters calls all of her pets "Nina" my youngest daughter's name - not very imaginative but still cute :)